Tours

Tours (French pronunciation: ​[tuʁ]) is a city located in the centre-west of France. It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France (although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans). In 2012, the city of Tours had 134,978 inhabitants, while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 483,744.

Tours stands on the lower reaches of the River Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours, which took place in 732. The city is also the end-point of the annual Paris–Tours cycle race.

History

In Gallic times the city was important as a crossing point of the Loire. Becoming part of the Roman Empire during the 1st century AD, the city was named "Caesarodunum" ("hill of Caesar"). The name evolved in the 4th century when the original Gallic name, Turones, became first "Civitas Turonum" then "Tours". It was at this time that the amphitheatre of Tours, one of the five largest amphitheatres of the Empire, was built. Tours became the metropolis of the Roman province of Lugdunum towards 380–388, dominating the Loire Valley, Maine and Brittany. One of the outstanding figures of the history of the city was Saint Martin, second bishop who shared his coat with a naked beggar in Amiens. This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

RBD

RBD was a Mexican musical group that gained popularity from Televisa's teen series Rebelde, and found international success from 2004 until their separation in 2009. RBD has sold over 17 million digital downloads and over 56 million albums worldwide in four years since their formation, 2 million albums in the United States, making them the most successful Latin pop group of all time.

The members are popular Mexican singers and actors Anahí, Alfonso Herrera, Christian Chávez, Christopher von Uckermann, Dulce Maria and Maite Perroni. The main writers and producers for the project were Carlos Lara (aka D.J. Kafka), Lynda Thomas (aka Polen Thomas) and Max di Carlo (aka Karen Sokoloff).

The band was officially formed on October 30, 2004, and on August 15, 2008, RBD announced through a press release that they would disband in 2009.

Biography

2004–05: Rebelde and Nuestro Amor

Their first album Rebelde, was released on November 11, 2004 by EMI. The first four singles ("Rebelde", "Sólo Quédate En Silencio" "Sálvame"), "Un Poco De Tu Amor" were all number one hits in Mexico.

Ceph (software)

In computing, Ceph is an object storage based free software storage platform that stores data on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. Ceph aims primarily to be completely distributed without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level, and freely available.

Ceph replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant, using commodity hardware and requiring no specific hardware support. As a result of its design, the system is both self-healing and self-managing, aiming to minimize administration time and other costs.

The CephFS (filesystem) implementation lacks standard file system repair tools, and the Ceph user documentation does not recommend storing mission critical data on this architecture because it lacks disaster recovery capability and tools.

Design

Ceph employs four distinct kinds of daemons:

RBD (disambiguation)

RBD may refer to:

Computing

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